My Burden Is Light: Making Room for Jesus in Preaching
My Burden Is Light: Making Room for Jesus in Preaching invites preachers to reclaim proclaiming Jesus as the goal of preaching. Too often, Satterlee observes, we usher Jesus to the back of the pulpit, invite him to make a cameo appearance, or even excuse him from the sermon altogether. With the author's guidance, readers imagine the ways Jesus is present in their favorite liturgical space and explore ways they can make room for Jesus in preaching and experience abundant life for themselves and for their people.
Satterlee argues that by preaching the mystery of Jesus's life, death, and resurrection as good news for God's people, the church, and the world--all of whom long for salvation, we powerfully address the issues we face, including pandemic, climate change, assaults on democracy, social justice, and division. Drawing on his lifetime of experience learning, preaching, and teaching the gospel, this book is foundational for preaching courses and a balm for preachers needing nourishment and renewal.
- Title: My Burden Is Light: Making Room for Jesus in Preaching
- Author: Craig A. Satterlee
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781506465821, 9781506465814, 1506465811, 150646582X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781506465821
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-07-13T00:25:53Z
Craig Alan Satterlee is bishop of the North/West Lower Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He was the 2019 John S. Marten Faculty Fellow in Homiletics and Visiting Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Craig served as the Axel Jacob and Gerda Maria (Swanson) Carlson Professor of Homiletics at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, dean of the ACTS Doctor of Ministry in Preaching program, and adjunct professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.
Ordained in 1987, Bishop Satterlee served congregations in Upstate New York and Michigan before teaching at LSTC. While a seminary professor, Bishop Satterlee served as interim or consulting pastor in Chicago area congregations. He is known for regularly leading continuing education events throughout the church.
Satterlee is the author of nine books and frequently contributes to scholarly and ecclesiastical journals. His scholarly interests include the relationship of preaching to areas of congregational life and mission, including liturgy, spirituality, stewardship, mission, and leadership. He also studies patristic preaching, most notably that of Ambrose of Milan, and the worship of the early church.
As a scholar, Satterlee is described as belonging "to the relatively small group of working homileticians whose work can justifiably be said to have changed the agenda of the discipline." His books are "superb examples of practical theology, remaining fully theological while engaging on-the-ground realities in the life of the church."
Satterlee is past president of the North American Academy of Liturgy and a member of Societas Liturgica, Societas Homiletica, and the Academy of Homiletics.
As a person who is legally blind, Satterlee has a passion for ministry with persons with disabilities and a unique perspective on the Christian faith, church, and world.